Friday, September 18, 2009

Manolo's fresh corn tamales

Strip the ears of fresh corn with a sharp knife, grind the fresh cut kernels with a "molino". Season the mashed corn with sea salt and put a couple of spoonfuls of the corn puree on fresh husks and wrap them as little presents :) Steam for 10 or 15 minutes (we use the corn "bones" in the bottom of the pot instead of a steamer basket ) and serve with jocoque or yogurt cheese.He does the cleaning, cutting and grinding and I wrap the little presents :)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

3x3

My very talented friend Gustavo Aimar is having a little partyto celebrate his blog's third anniversary and you are all invited!He has created a special blog called 3 x 3 where he will be posting tiny 3 x 3 cms(1 1/8" x 1 1/8") works of art by anyone that wants to participate.These three little birds are my contribution.I used watercolors, white acrylic ink and a Micron pen on gray bookboard.

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If you want to participate email Gustavo at aimargus@gmail.com with a300 dpi 3 x 3 cm (1 1/8" x 1 1/8") jpg file of your artwork with your name,blog link and the technique or materials you used to make your tiny piece of art.*He stresses the importance of actually making you art piecein that small scale and not just adjust any artwork to that sizeand format.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Fiesta!

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Best present ever!

This is by far the best present I have ever received on my birthday (yes, today is my birthday!). My son Daniel (age 11), carved that Snoopy (my all time favorite character) out of balsa foam, painted it with acrylic paints & a sharpie marker and made him the perfect red house out of cardboard! He surprised me early this morning with it. He had been really sneaky and secretive about what he was making me for my birthday for the past two weeks :) Don't let anyone tell you otherwise...handmade presents are the absolute best.Thank you Daniel! I love you so much. I LOVE my Snoopy!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Sketchbook cover...done.

Now what should I put on the other sketchbook's cover? hmmm...Done with Cotman watercolors and FW white acrylic ink.The lovely Stephanie Levy interviewed me at Artists Who Blog,if you'd like to read it click here.

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Prototype

A little 4" x 4" handbound accordion style calendar I'm working on right now.Six months on each side & printed on beautiful local acid free handmade paper.I will hopefully have a whole bunch of these available in my shop by late October.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Bigger!

Beautiful objects on my inspiration board today.I modified the format of my blog this morning,I hope you enjoy the bigger photos.*If you are interested in learning how to make yourblog photos bigger I suggest you read this post. I googled "how to post bigger photos on Blogger" and it came up :)**Ups! I forgot to tell you that if you click on the photoit will take you to Flickr where I placed notes with linksto all the lovely artists represented here.